Who Do You Love?

What are you going to do for Valentine's Day - anything? I hope we can all remember the message of Valentine's - it's about love. It's about love made visible. Not just romantic love, although that's good too, but filling yourself with love and letting it spread out.

Who do you love? Could you send your parent, sister or friend a chocolate heart or a poem on pretty paper with a cut out heart to remind them that you love them? Or make your children some heart shaped cookies for their lunch box? Now's the time to do something, and get it posted. We never know what tomorrow will bring, so we should remember to say I love you whenever we can. 

I just watched this Martha Stewart clip and although this guest goes completely over the top, lol, it's totally worth watching for the sweet little ideas - one or two would be lovely. And darn it, why not, it's fun to mark the festivals and such like as we go through the year. Making a small effort for these things kind of helps the year go along nicely - and great photo ops too, for scrapping, LOL!

You could also google valentines ideas images like I just did and find a wealth of ideas. I mean, when faced with the whole page of images it's a bit in your face, but pick one or two and have a go, then remember to take photos. 

Oh, and for those of us who don't get anything back - remember, we teach people how to treat us. Tell them straight we expect an effort back. Sometimes they need a poke in the ribs. And for little kids, that might just be drawing a heart for you on paper and giving you a kiss.

And if all else fails, remember to love yourself no matter what. Make it special for yourself and lie in a bath with some red rose petals sprinkled in it, wear a heart necklace, eat a heart chocolate, make yourself a special lunch or dinner, buy a little bunch of pretty flowers and enjoy seeing them on the table, listen to some nice music, paint your toenails, watch a girly movie. Tell yourself in the mirror that you love you no matter what, and you care about your happiness. Oooh, hard, I know, lol. Do it anyway.

Some other ideas: 

Do a layout of someone you love and put a truely heartfelt message on it.

Make a pile of cards and dish them out. 

Write a letter (yes, a proper one) to an old aunt or uncle, or a friend or cousin you haven't seen for ages.

Go for a nice stroll in the park and take some corny love shots with your hands held in heart shapes.

Write a list of things you love about someone and put it under their pillow. 

Buy a heart shaped ice cream and just indulge your senses in the creaminess of it.

Make the cat a heart shaped pillow with some cat nip in it.

Put some heart stickers on your teabag tags.
Take a bloom with a love note to a favourite graveside.
Visit a friend or a neglected relative and take a cake and some flowers from your garden. 

Punch out some hearts and scatter them on your child's floor.

Give a homeless person a bit of love with some heart cookies and a fiver in a box.

There's heaps of things we can do to remind ourselves of the love we feel. And the funny thing is, giving that love helps it flow and come back to us, and that has to be a good thing. Love makes the world go around, right?

 love, Heather "It's about love. You don't have to scrapbook to love but you have to love in order to scrapbook." June